Using System Configuration Profile Templates

Profiles can contain variables that are replaced with values from the client's installation
environment during the installation process. In this way, a single profile file can
set different configuration parameters on different clients. See Table 11-9 for a list of variables
you can use.

In the following example profile named hostIPnet.xml, AI_HOSTNAME is a placeholder for
the client system's host name, and AI_IPV4 is a placeholder for the client
system's IP address.

While the hostandIP.xml file remains unchanged, the profiles that are applied to a
client are customized. For example, the hostandIP.xml profile might have the following
content when a client with host name server1 is installed: